Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti

Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti (17 February 1951-15 January 2007) was a leader of the Mukhabarat, intelligence service of Iraq, and a half-brother of Saddam Hussein.

Biography
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti was born in Tikrit, Iraq, and in the 1970s he became the director of the Iraqi secret police. He executed opponents to the new regime of President Saddam Hussein, his half-brother. In 1989, he became the Iraqi Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva, and he used foreign brokers to clandestinely manage Saddam's wealth.

In 2003, when the United States and United Kingdom invaded Iraq during the Iraq War, he was made the "Five of Clubs" on the Deck of 52 of Iraq's most wanted "playing cards". In April 2003, six satellite-guided bombs were dropped on his house in Ramadi, but al-Tikriti was not present. In late summer he was captured with a large entourage of bodyguards, and on 30 June 2004 he was turned in to the interim government.

Charged with supporting the Dujail Massacre - the killing of 148 Shi'ites on 8 July 1982 - al-Tikriti was sentenced to death by hanging. Due to incorrect calculations about the force of the drop, he was decapitated when he was hanged.